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Description: St. Xavier College, now Xavier University, is located in Cincinnati, Ohio. This illustration, which shows campus buildings including the Athenaeum, is from the "Kimball & James' Business Directory for the Mississippi Valley," 1844. In 1831, Bishop Edward Fenick established a college called the Athenaeum in Cincinnati. This school was the first Roman Catholic college founded in Ohio. Nine years later, Bishop John Purcell determined that Cincinnati would make a good location for a Catholic university to be run by the Society of Jesus, and proposed that the Athenaeum's property would be a good site for the new university. As a result, in 1840 the Jesuits took control of the Athenaeum, renaming it St. Xavier College in honor of the founder of the Society of Jesus, St. Francis Xavier. The college received its charter from the state in 1842. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04181
Subjects: Universities and colleges--Pictorial works; Multicultural Ohio--Religion in Ohio; Education--Ohio; Cincinnati (Ohio)
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)